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Saskia Reeves
Saskia Reeves
Born	16 August 1961 (age 63); Paddington, London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1984–present
Children	2

Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress, known for her roles in films including Close My Eyes (1991) , I.D. (1995), and Our Kind of Traitor (2016), in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and in TV series, including as a series regular in Luther (2010), Shetland (2016), and Slow Horses (2022–present).

Early life and education

Saskia Reeves was born on 16 August 1961^[1]^[2] of a Dutch mother and English father, and brought up in Twickenham and Paddington, London.^{[citation needed]} Reeves attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton.^{[citation needed]}

According to Reeves, her father was an actor, writer and singer. As a teenager, while her parents did not encourage her, she and her sister attended weekend acting workshops "for a laugh". Reeves was faring poorly in high school, missing classes and not doing homework, and didn't take her university-qualifying A-level exams. She discovered "drama school" as an alternative to university that didn't require A-levels; it sounded like "brilliant fun" and would give her three years to figure out her future.^[3] She attended London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.^[4] She then worked for a year and a half as a waitress before getting a "decent job in a theatre in Wales", followed by other jobs, until she concluded, "I could earn a living at this".^[3]

Career

Early in her career Reeves performed in puppet shows^[5] and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre.^[6] Her stage work includes productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at London's Royal National Theatre.^[7] She was a member of the Cheek by Jowl international theatre company.^[6] In 2008, she starred in the English Touring Theatre revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London.^[8]

Reeves work in film includes: Close My Eyes (1991); I.D. (1995); Butterfly Kiss (1995) co-starring with Amanda Plummer – described in the New York Times as "a disturbing road movie that suggests a twisted British answer to 'Thelma and Louise' spiced with dashes of 'Heavenly Creatures' and 'Natural Born Killers'";^[9] and Our Kind of Traitor (2016).

Reeves' numerous television credits include Spooks, The Commander, and the Bodies finale. In 1997, Portlands, a six-part BBC One miniseries about the creation of the suburbs in the 1920s, was her first major TV series role.^[10] In 2010, she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of John Darwin, in BBC Four's Canoe Man, a dramatization of the John Darwin disappearance case,^[11] and co-starred as DSU Rose Teller in the first season of the BBC One series Luther.^[12] In 2011, Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC Four.^[13] She co-stars with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas in the Apple TV series Slow Horses (2022–present).

Reeves has also done voice work, including commercials, narration, and book readings.^[14]

Personal life

Reeves has two children.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1990	Antonia and Jane	Antonia McGill
1991	December Bride	Sarah Gilmartin
1991	Close My Eyes	Natalie / Sister
1991	The Bridge	Isobel Heatherington
1994	Traps	Louise Duffield
1995	Butterfly Kiss	Miriam
1995	I.D.	Lynda
1996	Different for Girls	Jean
1998	L.A. Without a Map	Joy
1999	Heart	Maria Ann McCardle
2003	The Tesseract	Rosa
2008	Me and Orson Welles	Barbara Luddy
2013	Anna (originally Mindscape)	Michelle Greene
2013	Nyphomaniac: Vol. 1	Nurse
2015	The Program	Conference doctor
2016	Our Kind of Traitor	Tamara
2016	The Prime Minister	US President
2020	Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes	Maddalena Fagandini / Jen / Actor / Mary Wollstonecraft
2020	Shadows	Mother
2021	Creation Stories	Helen
2024	The Outrun	Annie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Last Day of Summer	Linda	TV movie
1985	A Woman of Substance	Edwina	Episode: #1.3
1985	Lytton's Diary	Pretty Girl	Episode 1.2: "Daddy's Girls"
1989	Theatre Night	Greta Samsa	Episode: "Metamorphosis"
1990	Screen Two	Rosie	Episode: "Children Crossing"
1991	Screenplay	Antonia McGill	Episode: "Antonia and Jane"
1991	4 Play	Helen	Episode: "In the Border Country"
1994	Citizen Locke	Lady Marsham	TV movie
1994	Performance	Irina Shestova	Episode: "Summer Day's Dream"
1995	The Perfect Match	Bridget	TV movie
1995	Cruel Train	Selina Roberts	TV movie
1997	Plotlands	Chloe Marsh
1999	A Christmas Carol	Mrs. Cratchit	TV movie
2000	Dune	Lady Jessica Atreides	Episodes 1.2-3
2003	Suspicion	Julie Hopcroft	Episodes: 1.1-3
2003	Waking the Dead	Dr. Laurie Poole	Episodes 3.5-6: "Breaking Glass: Part 1 & 2"
2004	A Line in the Sand	Meryl Rodgers	TV mini-series
2004	Island at War	Cassie Mahy
2005	The Commander	Eileen Judd	Episode: #2.1-2: "Virus (Part One & Two)"
2005	If...	Mary Alton	Episode 2.4: "If... TV Goes Down the Tube"
2005	The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle	Louise Doyle	TV movie
2005	Afterlife	Sheila Rabey
2006	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Eileen Edwards	Episode 5.1: "Natural Causes"
2006	MI-5	Sally / Sally Bernard	Episodes 5.6-7: "Hostage Takers: Part 1 & 2"
2006	Bodies	Mary Dodd	Episode 2.11: "The Finale"
2007	The Last Days of the Raj	Lady Mountbatten	TV movie
2007	Silent Witness	DS Maureen Steele
2008	The Fixer	Andrea Greene	Episode 1.4
2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983	Mandy Wymer	TV movie
2010	Canoe Man	Anne Darwin	TV movie
2010	Luther	DSU Rose Teller	Season 1
2010–12	Wallander	Vanja Andersson	Episodes 2.3 "The Fifth Woman" (2010), 3.1 "An Event in Autumn" (2012)
2010–2016	Midsomer Murders	Marcia Macintyre, Summer Pitt	Episodes 13.2: "The Sword of Guillaume" (2010), 18.4: "A Dying Art" (2016)
2011	Lewis	Alison McLennan	Episode 5.1: "Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things"
2011	Women in Love	Anna Brangwen	TV mini-series
2011	Page Eight	Anthea Catcheside	TV movie
2012	One Night	Sally	TV mini-series
2012	Playhouse Presents	Teddy Brookman	Episode 1.1 "The Minor Character"
2013	Vera	Laura Marsden	Episode 3.2 "Poster Child"
2013	NTSF:SD:SUV	P.M.O.T.R.N.	Episode 3.10 "U-KO'ed"
2014	Salting the Battlefield	Anthea Catcheside	TV movie
2014	From There to Here	Claire	TV mini-series. Episodes 1.1-3
2015	Wolf Hall	Johane Williamson	TV mini-series. Episodes 1.1 "Three Card Trick", 1.2 "Entirely Beloved", 1.3 "Anna Regina", 1.4 "The Devil's Spit", 1.6 "Master of Phantoms"
2016	Shetland	Freya Galdie	Series 3 (5 episodes)
2017	Silent Witness	DS Maureen Steele	Episodes 20.3 "Discovery: Part 1", 20.4 "Discovery: Part 2)"
2017	Redemption Road	Mrs. Hales	TV movie
2017	The Child in Time	Thelma	TV movie
2018	Collateral	Deborah Clifford	TV mini-series. Episodes 1.1, 1.4
2019	Death in Paradise	Frances Compton	Episode: "Beyond the Shining Sea: Part Two"
2020	Belgravia	Ellis	TV mini-series
2020	Us	Connie Petersen	TV mini-series
2020	Roadkill	Helen Laurence	Episodes 1.2-4
2022–present	Slow Horses	Catherine Standish	Main role
2024	Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game	Herself (Narrator)	3 Episodes (BBC)

Shorts

Year	Title	Role
1999	TIcks
2001	Bubbles	Annie
2004	The Knickerman	Mum
2006	Fast Learners	Lynda
2013	Unoriginal	Beatrice
2015	Be Now	Karen
2015	Out for a Walk	Mother

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number	Ruth Minnen
2017	King Lear: Live from Shakespeare's Globe	Kent
2019	The Tragedy of King Richard the Second	Bushy / Green / Duchess of York	National Theatre Live